A first

I must have been in worse condition than I thought yesterday.  Because this morning I cannot find my rental car keys!

I only left my room three times yesterday and only once did I leave the hotel.  Once to go to lunch around the corner so I didn't drive.  Then once so the maid could clean and again in the evening for dinner.  But the last two times I never even left the hotel.

I did not drive after coming back to the hotel yesterday morning to rest and sleep off this cold.  I am feeling much better today but now have to deal with rental car.  This is going to be expensive.

Under the weather

It is a beautiful day in Charlotte.  Normally I wouldn't really know that because I am stuck inside all day for work.  But today I left the office at 9:30am to return to the hotel to rest and try to get over a cold I caught over the weekend.

I cannot remember the last time I left a client site or didn't go in because of not feeling well.  Hopefully some rest will help.

A snowy departure

An early morning freezing mist made the drive from home to the airport a nervous 20 minutes.  The airport was not crowded and by the time I walked to the gate, the weather had switched to snow and was coming down fairly heavy.

The plane had to be de-iced but not at the gate. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I saw was the de-icing machine and we were very far from the terminal. When we started to head to the runway, I noticed the snow plows.

The snow plows were performing a well-choreographed dance to clear the runway of snow and ice. It was fascinating.  The pilot informed us the airport had closed for a short time while the runways were cleared.

Our takeoff was an hour late but I had missed most of it apparently. Charlotte was very foggy and misty not unlike Minneapolis except there wasn't any freezing.

Winter has finally arrived

It was 1 degree when we landed on Thursday and it snowed on Friday.  It didn't snow much but at least there is white covering the ground finally.

The week of my birthday is statistically the coldest and this year proved it.

What?

The flight attendant announces that "there are lavatories throughout the plane."  Then follows with, "please be sure to use the lavatory in your section of the plane."

First of all there are three lavatories.  One in the front and two in the rear.  That is hardly "throughout". Its not like there's a bathroom at the wings.  

And why tell us about all the facilities, when they really want those of us us in steerage to walk all the way to the rear and those in first class to take a couple of steps to the front lav??  Tgis wasn't the first flight attendant to make the anouncement this way. 

Birthday dessert

Many thanks to my friends, family, and co-workers for all the birthday wishes.

It was a very nice day.

A Monday-day

A rare Monday day working from home.  Delta did not schedule an early morning flight to Charlotte today.  I am assuming that is because it is Martin Luther King Day.  Rather than fly in the middle of the day and lose a day of work, I'm flying tonight.

It sounds like I'm getting out of Minneapolis just in time.  A cold blast is forecasted to start tonight.